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Overview

This year's forum will focus on the workforce, and will be driven by the theme: Trauma and the mental health workforce. A safe place to work. A safe place to recover.

Delegates will work together to understand the experience of trauma, workplace culture, and systems of care that traumatise. Workplace health and safety issues will be discussed as will psychological and physical safety for people working in mental health services. There will also be a focus on creating healthy organisations, building trust, and using a trauma-informed framework to create workplaces which value mutual respect, creativity, and good practice.